After dismantling the 13-14 National Age Group Record in the 100 fly during day 3 prelims at the 2016 U.S. Winter Junior Championships (West), Regan Smith cranked it up a notch in the final to lower the record to a blazing 51.73.

Congratulations to Coach Tim Wise and Yale’s men’s swim team for earning the highest team GPA in NCAA Division 1 Men’s Swimming and Divivng. After every semester, the College Swim Coaches Association (CSCAA) releases their list of the Scholar All-America Team Awards. In order to receive the award, the team had to carry a GPA of 3.0 or higher. During the spring semester of 2014, 70 men’s swim teams had a team GPA of 3.0 or better.

The two teams with the best overall performances, in the pool and in the classroom, were Stanford and Michigan. Stanford finished 9th at the NCAA championships and finished with the second highest team GPA of 3.48. Michigan finished 4th at NCAA championships and they had the 12th highest GPA in the country with a 3.32. Several schools scored at the NCAA Championships and also had a team GPA of 3.0 or higher. Our list is of those teams is below along with where they finished at the NCAA Championships.

Stanford, 9th

Harvard, 42nd

Dartmouth, 42nd

Denver, 40th

Duke, 21st

Michigan, 4th

Utah, 35th

Notre Dame, 30th

Alabama, 12th

Arizona State, 23rd

Minnesota, 22nd

Wyoming, 44th

Indiana, 10th

Virginia, 26th

Ohio State, 18th

Northwestern, 29th

Southern Cal, 8th

West Virginia, 23rd

Georgia, 5th

Auburn, 6th

North Carolina, 38th

NC State, 13th

Virginia Tech, 20th

Florida, 3rd

UNLV, 19th

Below is a complete list of the CSCAA Scholar All America Team Award winners.

I’d love to see the breakdown of the majors of these students. Getting a 3.5 GPA in something like computer science or engineering at Stanford is rarely done while swimming competitively for ~20 hours a week.

About Tony Carroll

The writer formerly known as "Troy Gennaro", better known as Tony Carroll, has been working with SwimSwam since April of 2013. Tony grew up in northern Indiana and started swimming in 2003 when his dad forced him to join the local swim team. Reluctantly, he joined on the condition that …